Omen II

They should do a JW Lost in Space Collection.

Not to mention that very significant milestone anniversary in 2021........
 
It's so obvious now!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I figured some of you may enjoy this.
 
What a simply brilliant composer. I have no doubt in my mind that if film/tv wasn't invented some of these old media composers would be the Schuberts and Vivaldi's of our time.  I think JW would be easily akin to a Holst or R. Strauss. 
 
 

Does your question refer to Earthquake or The Eiger Sanction, @crumbs?
 
Almost all of the source music in The Eiger Sanction is by John Williams, the exception being a minute or so of Chopin's Nocturne in E flat major heard emanating from another apartment as Wormwood climbs the stairs prior to his killing right at the beginning of the film.  Most of the other source music (totalling about 12 minutes) is heard at Ben Bowman's ranch in Arizona while Hemlock prepares for his assignment on the Eiger, although there are also a couple of quasi source music pieces as Hemlock and Jemima get it on after he picks her up during a plane flight.  The source music is similar in style to much of the source music in Earthquake.
 
I agree with others' comments that a presentation of the full score would be revelatory.  Not only is the OST a complete rerecording (as was the case with Jaws, Earthquake, The Missouri Breaks, etc.) but much of the brilliant music for the climbing scenes in the last third of the film is not represented at all.  Just one example is the music for the scene where the French climber Montaigne is mortally injured in a rockfall, a classic Williams action cue that can be counted among his best work of the 70s, in my opinion.
 
Incidentally, most of the source music in Earthquake is by John Williams, although he cannot claim credit for the Hare Krishna chant!
 
 
Candice Rialson plays an art student who tells Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) that she will do "anything" to get a better grade.  He tells her to go home and "study her little ass off"!

Does your question refer to Earthquake or The Eiger Sanction, @crumbs?
 
Almost all of the source music in The Eiger Sanction is by John Williams, the exception being a minute or so of Chopin's Nocturne in E flat major heard emanating from another apartment as Wormwood climbs the stairs prior to his killing right at the beginning of the film.  Most of the other source music (totalling about 12 minutes) is heard at Ben Bowman's ranch in Arizona while Hemlock prepares for his assignment on the Eiger, although there are also a couple of quasi source music pieces as Hemlock and Jemima get it on after he picks her up during a plane flight.  The source music is similar in style to much of the source music in Earthquake.
 
I agree with others' comments that a presentation of the full score would be revelatory.  Not only is the OST a complete rerecording (as was the case with Jaws, Earthquake, The Missouri Breaks, etc.) but much of the brilliant music for the climbing scenes in the last third of the film is not represented at all.  Just one example is the music for the scene where the French climber Montaigne is mortally injured in a rockfall, a classic Williams action cue that can be counted among his best work of the 70s, in my opinion.
 
Incidentally, most of the source music in Earthquake is by John Williams, although he cannot claim credit for the Hare Krishna chant!
 
 
Candice Rialson plays an art student who tells Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) that she will do "anything" to get a better grade.  He tells her to go home and "study her little ass off"!

Does your question refer to Earthquake or The Eiger Sanction, @crumbs?
 
Almost all of the source music in The Eiger Sanction is by John Williams, the exception being a minute or so of Chopin's Nocturne in E flat major heard emanating from another apartment as Wormwood climbs the stairs prior to his killing right at the beginning of the film.  Most of the other source music (totalling about 12 minutes) is heard at Ben Bowman's ranch in Arizona while Hemlock prepares for his assignment on the Eiger, although there are also a couple of quasi source music pieces as Hemlock and Jemima get it on after he picks her up during a plane flight.  The source music is similar in style to much of the source music in Earthquake.
 
I agree with others' comments that a presentation of the full score would be revelatory.  Not only is the OST a complete rerecording (as was the case with Jaws, Earthquake, The Missouri Breaks, etc.) but much of the brilliant music for the climbing scenes in the last third of the film is not represented at all.  Just one example is the music for the scene where the French climber Montaigne is mortally injured in a rockfall, a classic Williams action cue that can be counted among his best work of the 70s, in my opinion.
 
Incidentally, most of the source music in Earthquake is by John Williams, although he cannot claim credit for the Hare Krishna chant!
 
 
Candice Rialson plays an art student who tells Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) that she will do "anything" to get a better grade.  He tells her to go home and "study her little ass off"!

https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-ennio-morricone-and-john-williams.html?texto=discurso&especifica=0

"They're already here!"
 
My 2-CD set of War of the Worlds, I mean.  See what I did there?  My CD set arrived today and was waiting for me when I got home from work, well packaged by Intrada in a little box with some of those polystyrene things that look like anaemic Wotsits.
 
I will never forget the date when the OST CD arrived in the post - 7th July 2005.  Thankfully the day the expanded set arrived has been much less eventful and stressful so far!

That's unacceptable! I need mine delivered no matter the cost!

 
Karol

I ordered it at precisely 17:25 on Tuesday 6th October, but I have no idea when it shipped.  My Intrada online account still has my old email address, so if any order confirmation or tracking updates were sent out, I would not have received any of them.  I realised this half way through ordering but because I was still at work at the time I couldn't be arsed to change it, settling with taking a photo of the order confirmation screen Bruce Marshall-stylee in case I needed the order number at a later date.
 
Yours is probably delayed because the aliens delivering the packages are worried about contracting COVID-19 if they venture into the East Midlands.  If the common cold can do for them, they really ought to be at home on Mars shielding.

"They're already here!"
 
My 2-CD set of War of the Worlds, I mean.  See what I did there?  My CD set arrived today and was waiting for me when I got home from work, well packaged by Intrada in a little box with some of those polystyrene things that look like anaemic Wotsits.
 
I will never forget the date when the OST CD arrived in the post - 7th July 2005.  Thankfully the day the expanded set arrived has been much less eventful and stressful so far!

Here's the original. Beautiful writing:

 
 

Lo, almost 15 years later...
 

 
 

John Addison's score for Swashbuckler is a good one.  As well as the main theme here, there is a fine suite on a Chandos compilation of the composer's music which includes the love theme.  Although Jock Addison had a very distinctive, slightly whimsical orchestral style, this score sounds quite Goldsmithian in places.
 
 

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2020/08/26/ralph-grierson-podcast
 
I hope you'll enjoy this. It's truly fascinating to hear these amazing musicians talk so openly and joyfully about their incredible experiences. Ralph is a true legend--he performed in literally thousands of film and television scores!

From reading the reviews around here, apparently the performances were so awful that nobody applauded, they just sat in stunned silence, absolutely horrified at the tempos.

I wrote about it in a thread similar to this before, but basically he came to conduct the USC Symphony and I was friends with the musicians and in the composition school so skipped class to hang out at the rehearsals and back stage with them.  He was working with the orchestra for around five days and I attended every rehearsal and sat on stage sometimes too.  At first, he was very intimidating to me, he didn't mean to be, was just very focused.  For example, if the rehearsal was at 10am, he was in his trailer until 10:00 and then walked straight to stage.  No chit chat, no tuning (they were tuned at 9:59 to be ready by 10.  I was backstage and said hi the first day, he said hi and was immediately on stage, didn't chat.  My nerves calmed as the days went on and I realized he isn't a demigod but was quite human, very modest but extremely professional and on his game.  He worked the orchestra just like every other orchestra such as the LSO or LA Phil, or whoever.  The last day, he was most relaxed and mingled.  He answered questions, took pictures, seemed relaxed.  He even gave us career advice.  A true pro and a gentleman.  I wrote a lot more specifics whenever this topic came up before and posted pics I took.  Will have to look for that. 

A positive review from James Longstaffe at Presto Classical (the CD is their recording of the week):
 
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/articles/3432--recording-of-the-week-john-williams-conducts-the-vienna-philharmonic

Today marks the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.  As well as John Williams' Hymn to the Fallen, another of the pieces performed at today's memorial service at the National Memorial Arboretum was Only In Sleep by the contemporary Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds.
 
This performance by Rachel Ambrose Evans with the choir of Trinity College Cambridge is stunningly beautiful.
 
 

Hi, all! My podcast has been nominated for "Best Music Podcast" for the 2020 Podcast Awards! This is an exciting moment for this little show that started as a hobby and now has thousands of listeners on five continents.
 
Check out the list at Podcastawards.com

This.
 
These new fangled 'shaving mirrors' take up only a quarter of the space of those traditional 45s and 78s that form the bulk of all of our feem toon collections (along with cassettes, of course).  Mark my words: they are here to stay.

Witches!
 
 

Witches!